Neuroimaging

to overuse suppression as an emotion regulation (Henry et al, 2007). Similarly, Kimhy et al., (2012) found that patients with schizophrenia used more suppression than reappraisal compared to healthy controls in an Emotion Management Task (EMT). Neuroimaging studies attempt to explain emotion dysregulation in schizophrenia by suggesting that emotion dysregulation is due to neuropsychological deficits (Fior- Avanti et…

geriatric disorder populations. Internal validity could be potentially threatened due to other factors that could be contributing to the results, such as other activities. Furthermore, recommended future research could include the usage of reliable neuroimaging methods such as fMRI or EEG to further investigate the specific effects of DMT on cognitive functions; this will specifically be beneficial in further geriatric disorder research. Moving forward, studies could utilize larger sample sizes,…

Criminals, murders, and rapists are being discharged from prison regular in the wake of serving just short and permissive sentences. Who are these offenders and what makes them so unique? The culprits are adolescents who carry out grown-up unlawful acts. They are being attempted consistently in adolescent courts, and are accepting lesser sentences, and they are being discharged and given new characters to keep on living their lives in serene and upbeat euphoria, all while the victims and…

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. Difficulties have been recognized in adequately defining synesthesia: many different phenomena have been included in the term synesthesia, and in many cases the terminology seems to be inaccurate. A more accurate term may be ideasthesia. In one common…

According to Martin Lindstrom in “You Love Your iPhone. Literally.” he mentions how people characterize the intense consumer’s devotion to the iPhone as an addiction. First, Lindstrom supports his opinion by pointing out a recent experiment that neuroimaging technology suggested that drug related terms such as “addiction” or “fix” aren’t accurate words we should use to describe our most cherished personal relationships. With functional magnetic resonance imaging tests his team saw that the…

For several years the frontal lobes, known to play a role in higher-order cognitive functioning, have been thought to contribute to episodic memory (EM) – a contribution in which researchers have recently made efforts to delineate. Here I will evaluate the notion that frontal lobes contribute to EM, and suggest reasons as to how it might do this. Lesion studies We can look at lesion studies to assess the contribution of the frontal lobes to EM. Unlike cued-recall and recognition tasks (which…

Verbal memory impairments in schizophrenia associated with cortical thinning S. Guimond, M.M. Chakravarty, L. Bergeron-Gagnon, R. Patel, M. Lepage Background Our memory is a cognitive function that we most call upon. We are constantly using our memory to store numerous amounts of information, which helps us to develop our own bank of common knowledge, which we can later call upon. We tend to consider memory as a whole, when in fact the type of information we memorize and recall, actually…

Psychologists use animals to learn and understand some basic human behaviours such as hunger, thirst and reproduction. The use of animals in psychology links back to the 17th century in the UK. From this point of the history animals have been used for various psychological and biological reasons but now we face with a debate were people believe that animals shouldn’t be used in experiments. There are several reasons why people are against this but the first and, perhaps the most important one,…

the National Association of Elementary School Principals, stated this was “A great goal, but a difficult one.” PE should be a core class because PE affects cognitive function. I know this because the author stated: “Scientific evidence based on neuroimaging approaches over the last decade has demonstrated the efficacy of physical activity improving cognitive health across the human lifespan.” This shows scientific studies over the last 10 years have…

The brain is at the heart of all that is left in discovering the secrets to immortality. When God decides to reveal his secrets of the brain to scientists we will be able to unravel health and happiness, creating and correcting any health problem. It all begins with a thought, an impulse, a decision, and those things happen in our brain. Neuroscientists have been trying without much success for centuries to discover how the brain works, often coming up with tantalizing possibilities only to be…